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Sugar v. Sugar, Oil v. Oil. The independence sentiment which Secretary Hurley encountered on his "eyes-&-ears" tour sprang, as he well knew, not from any major development within the Philippines themselves but from a sudden and significant shift of economic and political opinion when the U. S. Rocky Mountain beet producers two years ago began to complain that duty-free Filipino cane sugar was depressing their industry. Louisiana cane-growers felt the same way. Concerns with $800,000,000 invested in Cuban sugar production lined up with them against the Philippines. From the North-west came...
...strange misshapen houses of which Barcelona is so proud were close shuttered and dark last week. No lights twinkled in the sloping Plaza Catalonia. Under the plane trees the boulevards were silent except for the clop-clop of cavalry patrols making their rounds and the sudden roar of an armored...
Near Ogden. Utah, Fireman Ollie Lance of Union Pacific's No. 19 sneezed. No. 19 came to a sudden, sickening halt. Out piled the train crew, out piled the passengers, to search the tracks until they found Fireman Ollie Lance's lost false teeth...
Just how the little brown man justified his sudden haste to join the meeting, after turning stubborn at the last moment fortnight ago and refusing to sail with his colleagues (TIME, Aug. 31), was not made completely clear. St. Gandhi had accused the British of violating the Delhi pact, of coercing natives to pay taxes by such extreme measures as locking them up in rooms filled with angry hornets. He said he would not leave India until Viceroy Willingdon promised that during his absence there would be no evictions, no forced tax collection. Because without his attendance there seemed little...
Only a fortnight ago Atlas Utilities Corp., investment trust headed by astute Floyd Bostwick Odium, 39, set Wall Street talking by its sudden acquisition of $9,000,000 Ungerleider Financial Corp. and $20,000,000 Sterling Securities Corp. (TIME, Aug. 17). Last week Atlas made its twelfth purchase since June last year, one bigger than any of the others. This buy was control of Chatham Phenix Allied Corp., formed in September 1929, by the securities affiliate of $326,000,000-in- resources Chatham Phenix National Bank & Trust Co., Manhattan...